{"id":1573,"date":"2018-03-20T14:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T14:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grupo.us.es\/hac\/?page_id=1573\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:24:47","slug":"how-to-design-for-the-absence-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/hac\/en\/what-we-research\/how-to-design-for-the-absence-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"# Designing for the absence of memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DESIGNING FOR THE ABSENCE OF MEMORY<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Poignant self-portraits by painter William Utermohlen<\/strong>, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1995<\/p>\n

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See the dissemination<\/span>\u00a0posters<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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2023<\/strong>. <\/em>Spatial adaptation of the living environment for people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease: Advance results for a good practices manual<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

2017. New techniques in architectural research to determine the influence of the physical environment on people with Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

2017. Proposal for a new architectural typology for patients with Alzheimer\u2019s: preliminary study<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Without memory, there is no poetry<\/strong>. We are memory. Memory is necessary so that the contemporary individual can define his identity and his own environment. Memory produces intense interference on Architecture, both personal and collective memory. The first generates as many landscapes as people. The second is the memory that each society has developed about its own culture as a repository of myths, traditions, and innovations to which it gives meaning and which is constantly changing. Memory establishes the symbolic relationship that unites the subject with the natural environment that surrounds him and that is transmitted to him in a social way.<\/p>\n

When the powerful binder of memory is diluted, the architecture of memories collapses. The memory does not have an argument; it is not a narrative that can be evoked by a sequential or plot line; the memory presents what we have experienced as fragments of unconnected situations and images that are not ordered temporally. This characteristic of our mind and the relationship we establish with reality and time is transmitted to the project process; it intervenes in our work.<\/p>\n

Memory<\/strong> and its relationships with heritage<\/strong>, landscape<\/strong>, architecture<\/strong>\u2014in short, with people\u2019s physical environments\u2014is one of the group\u2019s main areas of research, which it addresses from an architectural project perspective.<\/p>\n

The contemporary paradigm of memory loss is Alzheimer’s disease, which is considered the epidemic of the 21st century, not only because of the number of cases diagnosed in geometric progression but also because younger people are increasingly being diagnosed. When Alzheimer’s enters a home, a series of changes are triggered in the daily lives of its inhabitants; their way of life inevitably changes. Given some behaviours of users with memory problems, it is worth asking if they are conditioned by their state or by their environment; if it is the latter,<\/p>\n

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how to project for the absence of memory?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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See<\/span> presentation<\/strong> of this line of research:<\/span>
Designing for the absence of memory<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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See the<\/span> article<\/strong>:
<\/span>Designing tailored spaces for the absence of memory<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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DESIGNING FOR THE ABSENCE OF MEMORY Poignant self-portraits by painter William Utermohlen, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1995 \u00a0 \u00a0 See the dissemination\u00a0posters:   2023. Spatial adaptation of the living environment for people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease: Advance results for a good practices manual 2017. New techniques in architectural research to determine the influence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1565,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"[et_pb_section bb_built=\"1\"][et_pb_row _builder_version=\"3.0.89\"][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"3.0.89\" background_layout=\"light\"]\r\n

PROYECTAR PARA LA AUSENCIA DE LA\r\nMEMORIA<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=\"3.0.89\" width_unit=\"off\" use_custom_gutter=\"on\" gutter_width=\"2\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_2\"][et_pb_image _builder_version=\"3.0.89\" src=\"https:\/\/grupo.us.es\/hac\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/4.1.1.jpg\" show_in_lightbox=\"off\" url_new_window=\"off\" use_overlay=\"off\" always_center_on_mobile=\"on\" force_fullwidth=\"on\" show_bottom_space=\"on\" align=\"right\" title_text=\"Portada The New Yorker, dibujada por Lonni Sue Johnson, artista con amnesia\" custom_padding=\"5px|||\" \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"3.0.89\" background_layout=\"light\" text_orientation=\"center\" module_alignment=\"center\"]\r\n\r\nPortada con un dibujo de Lonni Sue Johnson, artista con amnesia\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"1_2\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"3.0.89\" background_layout=\"light\"]\r\n\r\nLa memoria y sus implicaciones con el patrimonio, el paisaje, la arquitectura, en definitiva, con el entorno f\u00edsico de las personas, es una de las principales l\u00edneas de investigaci\u00f3n del grupo. Est\u00e1 abordada desde el punto de vista del Proyecto Arquitect\u00f3nico. Esta l\u00ednea se compone de dos vectores con escalas diferentes::\r\n\r\nA escala habitacional se desarrolla la investigaci\u00f3n denominada:\u00a0Proyectar para la ausencia de memoria<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>, desde la que se abordan soluciones habitacionales para la carencia de la misma. Una investigaci\u00f3n que une los efectos del envejecimiento de la poblaci\u00f3n con las nuevas tecnolog\u00edas y cuyo campo espec\u00edfico de estudio son los colectivos afectados por determinadas demencias y discapacidades cognitivas. Estos trabajos se est\u00e1n desarrollando en colaboraci\u00f3n con la l\u00ednea Neurociencia b\u00e1sica y aplicada<\/strong> del Programa de Doctorado en Biomedicina, Investigaci\u00f3n traslacional y Nuevas Tecnolog\u00edas en Salud<\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/span>de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de M\u00e1laga.\r\n\r\nA escala territorial y urbana esta l\u00ednea de investigaci\u00f3n tiene una derivada que se desarrolla a trav\u00e9s de una l\u00ednea diferente que denominamos La memoria como construcci\u00f3n del sujeto<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> que se desarrolla de forma diferente y aut\u00f3noma, englobando la sub-l\u00ednea\u00a0Patrimonio, Paisaje y Proyecto<\/strong>, conceptos en los que la memoria<\/strong> constituye un sustrato consolidado, existente y heredado que tambi\u00e9n es material de proyecto para la investigaci\u00f3n en arquitectura.\r\n\r\nVer presentaci\u00f3n y articulaci\u00f3n de la l\u00ednea:\r\n\r\nProyectar para la ausencia de memoria<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=\"4_4\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"3.0.89\" background_layout=\"light\"]\r\n

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